Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik-B

Russia's heavy, jet-powered, tailless flying-wing stealth combat drone — fighter-sized, with internal weapons bays — built as a "loyal wingman" for the Su-57. Its concept is the same manned-unmanned teaming everyone is chasing; its reality is a program defined by a self-inflicted humiliation, when a Russian fighter shot down its own Okhotnik over Ukraine and handed Kyiv the wreckage.

Overview

The S-70 Okhotnik-B (Охотник, "Hunter") is a heavy stealth uncrewed combat aircraft (UCAV) — a tailless flying wing in the ~20-tonne class with internal weapons bays, one of the largest combat drones of its type. Developed by Sukhoi (with MiG, under United Aircraft Corporation/Rostec) and derived from the cancelled Mikoyan Skat using Su-57 technology, it is conceived as a Su-57 "loyal wingman": flying into contested airspace ahead of the crewed jet to scout, designate targets and deliver internally-carried munitions. It is Russia's entry in the collaborative-combat-aircraft race, and the counterpart to America's Fury and Valkyrie, China's GJ-11 and Russia's own simpler Orion. The essential caveat up front: for all its ambition, the Okhotnik remains a handful of prototypes that is not in serial production, and its advertised stealth and AI autonomy have been publicly undercut — most damningly by the loss of one over Ukraine.

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